Tag: East Asia Pacific
AFRICOM: Problems and Possible Remedies
by Ambassador (ret.) Edward Marks The establishment of the U.S. Africa Command raises some questions regarding the role of the military in U.S. Africa policy, as it will be performing many tasks generally thought of as the responsibility of State … Read more
Decisions Needed
ASEAN and Asian Regionalism by Alfonse F. LaPorta ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is important to American economic and political interests in the context of a rising Asia, the author of this article maintains, and the new U.S. … Read more
States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic Crisis
Reviewed by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
John W. Jandora, States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic Crisis, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International, 2008 [ISBN 978-0-313-35590-5] 91 pages.
Waves of Hope: The U.S. Navy’s Response to the Tsunami in Northern Indonesia
Review by Lt. B.J. Armstrong, USN
Bruce A. Elleman, Waves of Hope: The U.S. Navy’s Response to the Tsunami in Northern Indonesia (Newport Paper #28), Naval War College Press, Newport RI, 2007. 134 pp.
The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Reviewed by John W. Coffey
Robert Kagan, The Return of History and the End of Dreams (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 116 pp.
Northeast Asia Regionalism and Linkages with Southeast Asia
Along with the six-party negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear arms, talks have been quietly proceeding on broader political, economic, and security issues in Northeast Asia and a future regional “architecture” that would foster peaceful, constructive relationships into which North Korea … Read more
God and Gold
Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor
Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. 449 pages.
Sixty Years of Studying Malaya/Malaysia
by Ronald D. Palmer At a ceremony at the Malaysian Embassy in Washington marking the fiftieth anniversary of Malaysian independence on November 17, 2007, Ambassador Ron Palmer, who was ambassador to Malaysia in 1981-82 and served as president of the … Read more
A Democracy-Building Success Story
U.S. Assistance to the Philippines after Marcos
by Al La Porta